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The West African country holds Africa’s third-largest gold reserves, plus vast lithium and uranium deposits.Mali has been gripped by a succession of coups, political instability and a security crisis since at least 2012.In the most recent upheaval on April 25, an al-Qaeda-linked armed group joined forces with Tuareg separatists to launch simultaneous attacks on targets across the country, killing Defence Minister Sadio Camara and prompting armed groups to declare a siege on the capital, Bamako.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listAmidst this struggle for security and control, Mali’s 24 million people are sitting atop a vast, untapped gold resource,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A government watchdog group is pursuing a new possible paper trail to find out who is funding climate presentations for judges, filing public records requests for financial information that could reveal how outside advocacy groups influenced the presentations.Government Accountability & Oversight (GAO), a nonprofit, made recent Freedom of Information Act requests, reviewed by Fox News Digital, for emails and financial records held by the Treasury Department that GAO says could show whether funds connected to the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) moved through the Federal Judicial Center Foundation. The effort comes…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Florida community is reeling after a deadly shooting spree left three generations of a family, including a 4-month-old baby and a 4-year-old child, dead across two crime scenes, authorities said Monday.Officers first responded early Sunday to a disturbance on a residential street in Plant City, where they found four shooting victims, the Plant City Police Department said. The 4-month-old and 4-year-old children were pronounced dead at the scene. Their 28-year-old mother was rushed to a hospital but later died. A third child was found unharmed.Investigators soon linked the violence to a…

Some Ontario wineries say the recent discovery of an invasive species of insect in the province is “extremely dangerous” to the industry and could have a “devastating impact.” Known as the spotted lanternfly, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it was contacted last month after a St. Catharines, Ont., resident found a dead member of the species.After an inspection, it collected 12 dead spotted lanternflies in an imported shipment of planting pots from the United States.“It can have a devastating impact,” said Norman Beal, president of the Peninsula Ridge Estates Winery and board chair of Ontario Craft Wineries. “They can…

Alphabet Inc. is moving ahead with its largest-ever euro-denominated bond sale, attracting strong investor demand as it ramps up funding for artificial intelligence (AI) investments.The company has received more than €25.2 billion in orders for a planned debt sale of at least €9 billion.The offering is expected to be split into six parts and could range between €9 billion and €9.5 billion, mentioned in Bloomberg report.The transaction marks Alphabet’s biggest issuance in euros to date. It comes just months after the company raised nearly $32 billion through bond sales in US dollars, sterling, and Swiss francs.AI spending drives capital needsAlphabet’s…

Author Ahmed Barakat Author Ahmed Barakat Part of the Team Since Aug 2025 About Author Ahmed Balaha is a journalist and copywriter based in Georgia with a growing focus on blockchain technology, DeFi, AI, privacy, digital assets, and fintech innovation. Share Last updated:  May 5, 2026 U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs drew another $532.21 million on Monday, pushing cumulative inflows above $59 billion and total assets under management to $106.44 billion, as Washington moved the Clarity Act closer to a markup session. The combination is strengthening the market case for Bitcoin even as Iran-related risks remain in focus.That backdrop is also…

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka believes tennis players should organise a boycott if they don’t receive a larger share of tournament revenues at grand slams.

CHINA LIKENED LAI TO A “RAT”There was no immediate response from the Chinese government, which last week likened Lai to a “rat” for his “skulking” visit to Eswatini.Lai’s aircraft, the same A340, left Eswatini on Monday for Taiwan, taking a long route over the bottom part of the Indian Ocean, avoiding the flight information regions of Mauritius and ​Madagascar, which both have deep economic and diplomatic ties with Beijing.The aircraft then flew over Australia’s Christmas Island, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, before entering Taiwan airspace for arrival into Taoyuan, according to flight tracking apps.Lai was accompanied on his flight by…

Michael Burry dumped his entire stake in GameStop after the company’s audacious bid for eBay , saying the deal’s heavy leverage shattered the investment case he had been building. “I sold my entire GME position,” Burry said in a Substack post late Monday. “Any which way I sliced it, the Instant Berkshire thesis was never compatible with > 5x Debt/EBITDA, never ok with interest coverage under 4.0x … As a result, GME is the first sale since I started this Substack.” GameStop made an unsolicited, nonbinding offer to acquire eBay for $125 per share in cash and stock, valuing the…

A joint investigation by Al Jazeera and Liberty Investigates has found that 12 universities paid a private company, led by ex-military intelligence officials, to profile academics and scan social media use by students.Al Jazeera’s Linh Nguyen explains.